Saturday, November 23, 2013

Zaxxon Atari 2600 Review

What can I say about this game?  Not much.  It is basically River Raid with horrible graphics and game play.  The only difference is the elevation / 3D control.  I never really cared for the arcade game and this version just plain sucks.  It is not even remotely fun or enjoyable to play.  I did have the C64 version when I was a kid and played that quite often.  It seems like the makers of this game focused everything into the elevation / 3D aspect of the game and just let everything else go to shit.  I understand the 2600 had its limitations but it seems like they could have done way better with this game.  They would have been better off to maybe make it a side scroller and called it Zaxxon 2 or Super Zaxxon or something and not tried to make a port of the arcade.  They failed miserably on this game.  I give it a 1 out of 10 only because the only other game I know of to use the elevation / 3D feature on the 2600 is desert falcon which came out way later.  I believe this game was the first to use that feature / novelty.

Here is a pic of the cartridge.




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